Quotes about Spirituality
The effort to grasp the great truths of revelation imparts freshness and vigor to all the faculties. It expands the mind, sharpens the perceptions, and ripens the judgment. The study of the Bible will ennoble every thought, feeling, and aspiration as no other study can. It gives stability of purpose, patience, courage, and fortitude; it refines the character, and sanctifies the soul.
— Ellen White
The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control.
— Ellen White
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. Isa. 60:1, 2.
— Ellen White
Every soul has a heaven to win, and a hell to shun.
— Ellen White
Those who in everything make God first and last and best are the happiest people in the world.—My Life Today, p. 161.
— Ellen White
Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!
— Ellen White
The question for us is not, "What will the world say?" but, "How shall I, claiming to be a Christian, treat the habitation God has given me? Shall I work for my highest temporal and spiritual good by keeping my body as a temple for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, or shall I sacrifice myself to the world's ideas and practices?"
— Ellen White
It is impossible for those who indulge the appetite to attain to Christian perfection.
— Ellen White
The completeness of Christian character is attained when the impulse to help and bless others springs constantly from within—when the sunshine of heaven fills the heart and is revealed in the countenance.—Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 383, 384.
— Ellen White
Appetite must not be your god.
— Ellen White
They had witnessed the proclamation of the law in awful
— Ellen White
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
— Emily Bronte